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“This was Dr. Steiner at the top of his form, and the Norton lectures at their most sublime,” said Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Du Bois professor of the humanities.
In an address co-sponsored by Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and the Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee, Jordan began by explaining the impetus for his new book, entitled Vernon Can Read!
The single most familiar remark made by an African-American about Harvard is undoubtedly that made by W.E.B. Du Bois, Class of 1890. “I was in Harvard, but not of it,” he wrote. One wonders what Du Bois, who received his doctorate from the...
In the crimson-colored volumes of Harvard history that collect dust on the shelves of the Widener reference room, one can barely find mention of the thousands of African-Americans who received Harvard degrees. For example, the index to Three Centuries of Harvard, the famous history written by Samuel Eliot...
That's a cry that surprisingly few black rap acts in America have taken up, with some notable exceptions. The masterly, literate self-titled debut of Black Star (Mos Def and Talib Kweli) is a virtual symphony of African internationalism. The group's name alludes to Marcus Garvey's back...